Archive: May 2018

Based upon the Hyker philosophy “the only security worth anything is the one that actually gets used”, we set out to develop the easiest but most secure file sharing tool to solve file collaboration inside and between organizations, without a need for IT or security expertise, Konfident. It should be possible to do ad-hoc file sharing in teams with full control over who receives the information, and with the highest grade of security. Just because that you don’t have a huge IT security budget shouldn’t mean that you have to risk exposing sensitive information by using e.g. email, Google Drive or similar less secure alternatives.

LB07 is the second club to sign upFC Rosengård is the first club to sign up for Konfident

As part of our launch, we are sponsoring the Swedish Allsvenskan football league during this Silly Season.

Today there are many information leakage risks during the transfer negotiations, like:

Information leaks to competing clubs

Information leaks to the press that spread rumors

You don’t know where the information leaks

Competing clubs “steals” transfers when they know what a competing club has been offering

Konfident provides:

Secure file sharing, for instance, contracts and proposals

Full control over who can access the documents

Competing actors cannot access the information

Media has no access to sensitive negotiations

Keep upcoming scout reports secret for anyone but their own organization

Keeping transfers confidential until they are finalized

The Hyker Campaign in short:

FREE access to the Konfident application during the first three months

A safe workspace for the club to share contracts, offers, negotiation material and reports

If you want access to a workspace for your club during this campaign, please contact Hyker using this form:

Most of us know that E-mail should not be used for the exchange of confidential data such as personal information without encryption. But how about internal e-mails, why should they be encrypted?

Typically, a company’s own e-mail solution is thought of as being a safe place to store all internal e-mail. But, many times “internal” email is actually handled and stored by an external email provider, like Google.

When e-mail is used to send sensitive information then storing it in an outsourced e-mail service or servers should raise an alarm for the person in charge of data security and data privacy protection.

Does the service provider agreement also cover situations where sensitive information has ended into places where it does not belong?

How fast do they respond to breaches?

How many e-mail service admins have access to the e-mail data?

How you signed a GDPR processor agreement?

In practice, the most reliable way to protect communication and file sharing is to use strong encryption already when sending a message by encrypting the data in the sending computer and delivering the encryption key to the recipient in some way, who then opens the encrypted message in their own computer when reading the e-mail. PGP, invented in the early 90s, is a good example of such an encryption technology that can work for all email and email providers, but sharing the encryption keys has been a manual task and too difficult, making it too impractical to use for normal users. This has often been the problem that has prevented the usage on a larger scale.

So, what to do then if you don’t have a large IT department with a lot of security expertise?

The solution is to use email, internally and externally, for less sensitive information only. Sensitive files and documents should be managed in a secure collaboration workspace that is really easy to use, like Konfident.io.